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Jack Balas is an artist working in painting and photography, cross-referenced at times with writing and other media.  A recipient in 1995 of an individual fellowship in painting from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is represented in the Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York), the Tucson Museum of Art and the Kent & Vicki Logan Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  A portfolio of his paintings "Today I Drove Along the Rio Grande" was published in issue #120 of The Paris Review (New York).

This website includes a broad spectrum of the artwork divided into individual media in the above navigation bar. You can read an artist statement and get an overview of the work by taking a TOUR.  The newest painting and photo work is in the black area below, while a few other highlights from the past are in the adjacent gray.

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NOW & COMING UP:

 

"WE'LL BE SEEING YOU"
Solo Exhibition and Artist Residency
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Denver, Colorado
June 3 -September 7, 2008

http://www.mcadenver.org

concurrent with:
"TATTOO DETOUR:
JACK BALAS AND
HONOLULU ON PAPER"
Robischon Gallery
Denver, Colorado
June 28- August 2, 2008

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Both ExhibitionsReviewed
in the ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
Saturday July 18th
Read Review Here

Both Exhibitions Reviewed
in WESTWORD
July 17, 2008
Read Review Here

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COCKED! The Possessed Male:
Object of My Desire
JULY 17 ­ AUGUST 30, 2008
LUIS DE JESUS SEMINAL PROJECTS
2040 India Street, San Diego, CA 92101
T 619 696 9699

http://www.seminalprojects.com

"WE'LL BE SEEING YOU" : PROJECT AND SOLO EXHIBITION
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, DENVER

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The BROOKLYN MUSEUM,
New York City,
has recently acquired two pieces
from the MUSE / MUSEUM series
for its permanent collection.

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CATALOG ESSAY for "DECADES OF INFLUENCE" and "EXTENDED REMIX"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver

"Artist and catalogue contributor Jack Balas captures the boom mood in his poetic essay about being a laborer for hire. His description of driving across the country as an art shipper in the 80's expresses the increasing vulnerability of the artist through a portrait of the landscape. Looking in the rearview mirror suggests that the 90's represented the point of no return for the contemporary art world."

Cydney Payton, Executive Director /
Chief Curator, MoCA Denver.

 

 

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Current Paintings: 2008

 

 

Cover Image for
"How to Name a Hurricane"
by Rane Arroyo
University of Arizona Press

In Bookstores Now

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inclusion in "SELF-EXPOSURE:
THE MALE NUDE SELF-PORTRAIT"
photo anthology by Reed Massengill,
published by Rizzoli International,
New York

In bookstores now

 

 

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Series: MUSE / MUSEUM

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TATTOO DETOUR:
Fort Honolulu and the USS Waikiki

-- a drawing portfolio --

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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highlights FROM THE ARCHIVE:

All contents of this site
© 2002-08 by Jack Balas.

1990's PAINTINGS

  STUDIO MEN

 

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SPANISH MOSS:
AN EFFIGY OF THE SOUTH